Re: Altaf Hussain calls for separate province/country?
Obviously I was not born so the posters also but speak confidently about those times so am I through what I read and heard.
Nationalization brought many businesses run by Urdu speaking under govt badge and then the quota system and yes I agree that it was implied by Liaquat Ali Khan and enjoyed by both migrants and Punjabi’s except Sindhis and then ZAB increased the qouta for local Sindhis which was a fair decision but reduced the seats for migrants along with applied Sindhi official language, so all these events together arouse resentment among Urdu speakings. Qouta system never meant to be the permanent solution to provide jobs to people of rural areas but to educate them and what’s happening now is a matric pass who has contacts in govt and have a domicile of interior Sindh will be preferred over a karachiite who’s much more educated. How many non Sindhis you find nowadays sitting at executive positions in govt institutions? Just a handful of them, right, so is it fair comparing the Urdu speaking population?
It’s not about hatred to Sindhi language but why would one learn if you don’t need to. Same like my friend who’s a Punjabi but born and bred in Karachi don’t know how to speak Punjabi but my other friend’s father who’s a an Urdu speaking but born and brought up in interior Sindh before moving to Karachi is fluent in Sindhi but not his kids. So it all depends on the need of language not the hatred.